The Golden Key

My newest project as of late is an animation. It'll be approximately three minutes in length and will feature a tale from the Brothers Grimm as my main focus. The story that i picked is honestly very, very short. It barely takes up a third of the page!

Here it is:

"In the winter time, when deep snow lay on the ground, a poor boy was forced to go out on a sledge to fetch wood. When he had gathered it together, and packed it, he wished, as he was so frozen with cold, not to go home at once, but to light a fire and warm himself a little. So he scraped away the snow, and as he was thus clearing the ground, he found a tiny, gold key. Hereupon he thought that where the key was, the lock must be also, and dug in the ground and found an iron chest. If the key does but fit it! thought he, no doubt there are precious things in that little box. He searched, but no keyhole was there. At last he discovered one, but so small that it was hardly visible. He tried it, and the key fitted it exactly. Then he turned it once round, and now we must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid, and then we shall learn what wonderful things were lying in that box."

Obviously very short and very simple. My idea though, is to give it that story book feel by only using a very little amount of actual animation and to incorporate the text as much as possible. The majority of everything else will be sorta a collage of pictures and textures to really give it some aesthetic oomph. I intend it to fairly cute and simple since I feel as though if I really did anything else with it, it just wouldn't go over too well.

Here is screen shot of what I'm doing at the moment: